Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
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publican!
Considerable rain fell last Sunday
and Sunday night.
Ira Upshaw is to open the school in
district Ia on Monday next He has
taught there, and is well liked,
Mr.. John Cowick, of Larchland, ILL.,.
has been visiting his son, S. r. Cowick,
ESQ.,, of this city, for week or ten days.
Ed. Chalk is building an addition to
his residence, down by Big creek. The
addition is to be 14x28 feet and a. foot
ceiling.
Mr.. John Cowick, of Warren Co., Ill,
an old acquaintance of j. NJ. Young,
visited him Thursday. Mr.. Cowick is the
father of S. r. Cowick at Wa-Keeney.-
Wallace Meas, Sept. s4.
Mrs. NJ. d. Hollister and the chill
dren returned home Tuesday evening from
their lengthy stay in Missouri. Mr.. Hol-
lister went east on the train that day
and rode back apiece with them.
j. W. Conley and family, of Fit Car
son, Col, have been visiting in this county.
Mr.. Conley's father lives in the eastern
part of this county. J. w. seems to be
doing well out in the Centennial state.
As Mrs. Benedict took the train Mon
day, Mrs. L. G. Lloyd, Of Big Springs,
Nsb., stopped off here. Mrs. Lloyd was
seriously, disappointed at not finding Mrs.
Benedict at home. They are old acquain-
tances.
Captain Hanna reached home Tues
day morning from Denver. He reports
having had a delightful time out there.
and speak shighly of the magnificent dem
constructions made by the Odd Fellows
and Masonic orders.
Sheriff Baker took G. B. Smith and
s. P. Mendal to the penitentiary last
Monday. We stated last week that
Smiths sentence of Imprisonment was for
two and half years. Mendal gets one
year in the penitentiary.
Squire McGarvie was prevented from
being in town last Saturday on fair bust
ness. After starting, he experienced an
attack of bilious collie, and was compel
led to return home. 1t was two days be-
fore he was able to be about.
The Headhghfs glare reveals the fol-
lowing persons starting from Ellis to the
national G. A. r. encampment at st
Louis: S. j. Lent, A. r. Adair, c. J. Ras-
com, Geo. p. Taylor, Tom DAILY, j. s..
Ross and Major M. NJ. Fuller.
Byron Kelley and family, we neglect
ed to state last week, left Wa-Keeney on
the 90 inst. for st. Joseph, Mo-, where they
have settled. Mr.. Kelley will be men,
Der of a prominent law firm, Of which his
father, ex-Judge Kelley, is also member.
M. N. Monroe, of Newman, ILL.,, in
company with his brother-in-law, Eli
McCollum, of Ogallah township, was a
pleasant caller last Saturday afternoon.
1t is not improbable that Mr.. Monroe will
be citizen of Trego county before very
long.
Sandy Clark will be ready to 60 to
the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth about
the first of next week G. M. McClaren
raised on subscription tour this week
about twenty-one dollars to fit Clark with
presentable clothes and pay his railroad
fare to the home.
Mrs. B. ]. f. Hanna left Wa-Keeney
the middle of last week to visit at
Salina, Kan, view the national Grand |
Army encampment at st. Louis, and
spend some time at Chester and Sparta, in |
Illinois. She is not expected home for a
week or two yet.
Mr.. M. j. Curtis returned home from
Iowa last Sunday evening Mrs. Curtis
was not able to be out of bed when he
left Malvern, but she was out of danger.
AS soon as Mrs. Curtis's condition will |
permit, she and her child will come to
Wa-keeney to take up their residence.
Rev. Mr.. Walker has worked up quite
an interest in religious matters at the
Stimits school house. He returned there
last Tuesday, and remained until yester-
day afternoon. He will be at Wa-Kee-
ney tomorrow Sunday to attend the regu-
lar monthly meeting Of the Baptist de-
nomination.
Ivan Rich, son of Ben @. Rich, hap
pened to serious accident two or three
weeks ago by falling from load of hay
and getting both his legs run over by the
wagon wheels. AS matter of course, his
legs were bruised seriously. As it hap